Acou-Gen for Acou-Panels
As return to offices is becoming more prominent, companies are looking to enhance the spaces to make it more inviting for employees’ return to work. This includes refreshing of the interior spaces as part of huge Tenant Improvement (TI) work. Companies are now hiring architects and interior designers to help them with these projects.
The new trends for the workplace of the future include open offices, huddle rooms, and collaboration areas. Meaning there’s minimal wall separation in these offices allowing for sound to travel easily from space to space. This often becomes a nuisance for the employees who are looking for quiet and heads-down spaces to focus on their work. In comes Acou-Panels. These panels become very critical in absorbing noises to minimize sound travel between the assigned collaborative spaces, that are inherently louder, to the open office desk areas - the quieter spaces.
These panels are designed to be either wall mounted or ceiling mounted after their original design has been completed through the configurator. Since the geometry will be either CNC’d (undulating solid panel) or laser cut (waffle) the material will be determined by the designer; whether it’s insulation foams or feltz material or others.
With Acou-Gen you can generate the Acoustic Panels based on the needs of the designer and the space.
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These will be the generator variables for the end user (designer/architect) to use:
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These will then feed into the system to generate a grid and randomized wave pattern and peaks. Note the panels are set up to be a max of 30x30 to fit into a standard fabricator machine (CNC mill):
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Once the surface is created, we will import the geometry into Revit and that will have an associated material.